Louis C.K. Real Name: Stars And Their Stage Names (PHOTOS) | The Huffington Post Louis C.K. Real Name: Stars And Their Stage Names (PHOTOS) 07/17/2012 01:06 pm ET Kiki Von Glinow Director of Growth & Analytics, The Huffington Post Known as Louis C.K., "Louie" and sometimes simply "that ginger comedian," the comedy world's newest star offers us a bevy of choices with his many monikers. But what is the "Louie" creator's actual name? Louis Szekely. It's easy to see why the comedian turned his consonant-heavy surname into its phonetic equivalent. Although Szekely is pronounced “SAY-kay," Louis resorted to "C.K." in grade school . But the funnyman isn't the only one to ditch his given name for something a little easier on the ears. Stars like Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight), Meg Ryan (Margaret Hyra) and Michael Caine (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) have all tossed their given names for a headline-friendly pseudonym.

Check out these celebrities with stage names below: Stars And Their Pseudonyms Hungarian Roots: US Comedy Star Louis "C. K." Székely - Hungary Today hungarian roots Louis C. K. In our weekly series we write about celebrities – artists, actors, musicians, sport stars and scientists – who have some Hungarian origin, yet only few would consider them as “par excellence Hungarians”. In many cases even the person concerned knows/knew only very little about his or her Hungarian roots, while others are/were proud of their “magyar” background despite lacking the ability to speak the language of their parents or grandparents. Our seventh target is: Louis C. K., world-famous U. S. comedian Louis Székely, better-known professionally as Louis C. K., is the American comedian, actor, writer, producer, director and editor famous for the acclaimed FX comedy-drama series “Louie”. But did you know that his stage name is the approximate English pronunciation of his Hungarian surname, Székely (pronounced [ˈseːkɛj])? That’s no coincidence – perhaps one of the world’s best-ever comedians is partly of Hungarian heritage.

His parents, Marie Louise Székely (née Davis) and his father Luis Székely met at Harvard University. Mexican-born Luis earned a degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico prior to graduating from Harvard. C. K.’s paternal grandfather, Dr. Géza Székely Schweiger, was a Jewish Hungarian surgeon whose family emigrated to Mexico, where he met his Catholic wife. Born in Washington DC, C. K. spent his early childhood in Mexico but then moved back to the United States with his family, who settled in Moscow. His parents divorced and when he remarried, his father converted to Orthodox Judaism, the faith of his new wife. The comedian’s whole family still lives in Mexico – his paternal uncle Dr. Francisco Székely is an academic and an international consultant on environmental affairs who served as Mexico’s Deputy Minister of Environment between 2000 and 2003. The young C. K. spoke Spanish as his first language until he moved back to the U.S and learned English. He began his career writing for several comedy shows in the 1990s and early 2000s for comedians like David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, and Chris Rock.

Also in this period, he was directing surreal short films and went on to direct two features—Tomorrow Night and Pootie Tang—before he starred in the short-lived HBO television sitcom Lucky Louie. Four years later, he starred in the first season of Louie, which brought him critical acclaim. He has had supporting acting roles in such feature films as The Invention of Lying (2009), American Hustle, Blue Jasmine (both 2013), and Trumbo (2015). He released his debut comedy album, Live in Houston, in 2001 directly through his website and became among the first performers to offer direct-to-fan sales of tickets to his stand-up shows, as well as DRM-free video concert downloads, via his website. C.K. has released 9 comedy albums in his career and often directs and edits their comedy specials. C.K. has won a 2012 Peabody Award and six Emmy awards, as well as numerous awards for The Chris Rock Show and Louie, as well as his stand-up specials Live at the Beacon Theater (2011) and Oh My God (2013).

His comedy album Live at Madison Square Garden won Best Comedy Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.Rolling Stone ranked C.K.’s stand-up special Shameless number three on their “Divine Comedy: 25 Best Stand-Up Specials and Movies of All Time.” Shot in 2014, the comedian’s six-part story about his character Louie’s love affair with a Hungarian woman who doesn’t speak English was brilliantly bittersweet. It explored a lot of what it means to have feelings for someone, what sex does and doesn’t mean with romance, feelings of loss, and perhaps most poignantly, what communication means between two people. Most recently, he stealed the show at the Academy Awards gala ceremony, presenting the Oscar for the best documentary. C.K. managed to bring a moment of authentic appreciation to a easily overlooked category—those short documentaries that, as he observed, are almost always passion products: Who Is Louis Szekely - Louis Ck Net Worth Who Is Louis Szekely Read more... Louis Ck Louis Ck Net Worth is $8.5 Million.

An American stand-up comedian, film writer, actor, producer and director, Louis Szekely, or Louis CK has a net worth of $8.5 million. Louis CK gained his net worth by starring in the comedy series Louie, which he a. Louis Szekely (born Septembe... Louis Ck Net Worth is $8.5 Million. Louis Ck Net Worth is $8.5 Million. An American stand-up comedian, film writer, actor, producer and director, Louis Szekely, or Louis CK has a net worth of $8.5 million. Louis CK gained his net worth by starring in the comedy series Louie, which he a Louis Szekely , known professionally as Louis C.K. , is an Emmy and Grammy award winning Mexican-American stand-up comedian, radio host, television and film writer, actor and director. He is the star of the FX comedy series Louie, which he also writes, directs, and edits, although starting with the third season he will no longer edit. C.K.'s stage name is derived from an approximate English pronunciation of his Hungarian surname, Szekely . C.K.

was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Mary Louise , a software engineer, and Luis Szekely, an economist. C.K.'s paternal grandfather, a Jewish Hungarian, emigrated to Mexico, where he met C.K.'s paternal grandmother, who was a Catholic Mexican of Spanish and Mexican Indian ancestry. C.K.'s father was born in Mexico and C.K.'s mother is an American of Irish Catholic ancestry. The two met at Harvard University while his father was trying to finish his... Professor Louis C.K. Will Teach You How to Tell a Joke Now No matter where you land on the joke-telling spectrum, we amateurs could all use a couple tips. Today, we have Professor Louis C.K. So listen up. In the video above, YouTube’s Evan Puschak (aka The Nerdwriter) takes a single joke from C.K.’s 2011 Live ... Posted: January 19, 2017, 12:43 pm Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks on tap for TBS animated 'Cops' comedy PASADENA, Calif. — A new animated comedy starring the dynamic duo of Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks has landed at TBS.

The cable network has ordered 10 episodes of The Cops, which the comedians also created and will produce with Greg Daniels (The Office). Posted: January 14, 2017, 3:15 pm Take a master-class in stand-up comedy with Louis CK Part of the joy of watching Louis CK tell a joke is the way he tells the joke: effortlessly, as if you happened to be sitting across a diner table with him rather than in the middle of a massive arena. Such breeziness is, of course, the result of decades ... Posted: January 19, 2017, 8:29 am Louis C.K. to star in animated cop comedy FX’s Louie might not be coming back anytime soon — but creator and star Louis C.K. isn’t staying out of the TV world: The comedian is launching an animated comedy about cops aptly titled The Cops. The Cops, which will air on TBS, stars C.K. and the ... Posted: January 14, 2017, 2:51 pm Louis C.K. - Biography - IMDb Louis C.K.

Biography Showing all 67 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (3) | Trivia (17) | Personal Quotes (41) Overview (4) 6' (1.83 m) Mini Bio (1) Louis C.K. was born on September 12, 1967 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as Louis Szekely. He is a writer and producer, known for Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993), Louie (2010) and Louis C.K. Oh My God (2013). He was previously married to Alix Bailey . Spouse (1) Red hair Trivia (17) Louis's father, Luis Szekely, was born in Mexico. Louis's paternal grandfather was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and Louis's paternal grandmother was a Catholic Mexican (of Spanish and Indigenous Mexican descent). Louis's mother, Mary Louise Szekely (née Davis), is American-born, with Irish and German ancestry. Louis's parents met as students at Harvard University.

After his birth, in Washington, D.C., his family lived in Mexico City until he was seven years old. His family then settled in Massachusetts. His real surname, Szekely, is a common Hungarian surname pronounced SEK-kay. When he was young, he changed the pronunciation to SEE-kay because people always had trouble pronouncing it. Spanish was his first language. His first name is usually pronounced "Loo-ee". Father, with Alix Bailey , of daughters Mary Louise Szekely and Kitty Szekely . His first job was as a cook at a KFC. After high school, he was offered admission into New York University's Tisch School of the Arts but he did not bother to apply. His father was an economist and his mother was a computer programmer. He has three sisters. Trains in boxing with Micky Ward . Attended Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts. Was roommates with Marc Maron early in their careers. Is good friends with Chris Rock . Rock offered him the position of head writer on The Chris Rock Show (1997) but he turned it down for The Dana Carvey Show (1996). Carvey's show was short-lived and C.K.

ended up as a staff writer on Rock's show. He holds dual citizenship in the United States and Mexico. Personal Quotes (41) I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at. I remember I was in Sacramento doing a TV morning show to promote a comedy club I was working at and the host asked me, "So, uh, you work with Chris Rock . I wouldn't think you'd be a guy that works with Chris Rock!" And I said, "You mean because I'm white?" And he went, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! I wasn't going there!" And I said, "Well what else do you mean? Why else would you say that?" And he said, "Well, because if I saw you walking down the street, I just wouldn't say, 'I bet that guy works with Chris Rock.'" And I said, "Yeah...

because I'm white!" "No, no!! I'm not being... " And it was just pointless. And that was the whole interview basically! You know what, it's a mysterious question to me. Chris is a comedian from New York, and so am I. And we did a show together ( The Chris Rock Show (1997)) and I had this idea for this movie and we made it. I mean I'm half Mexican actually; my dad is Mexican. All of that race identity doesn't really mean anything to me. - when asked "How did a white guy end up making Pootie Tang (2001)?" I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English - I was basically an immigrant. But I picked up the language fast and soon I knew that I wanted to be a writer. My last name is Szekely. Sounds like Saykay. When I was a little kid I had an instructor in camp who called me Shnizneckely. He would make fun of my name and it hurt my feelings because I was a little pussy and I cried.

He said, 'Well, how do you say it?' I said, Seekay. So he wrote 'C.K' on my jersey and everything. He made my name 'C.K' and I just stuck with it. Dating is horrible, it's awful. I don't get it. It's like you're standing there: 'Hi. Do you want to have sex and later wish you hadn't?' It's horrible. And it's awkward at 42 because I don't have the body or the drive. I just sit in the car and hope somebody gets in. I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day. After you do standup for for, like, five years, you're kind of screwed because you have no other skills. You can't get other jobs. It's like being in prison: you're not suitable for any other career. I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit.

I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set. I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times. [on Louie (2010)] If they don't let me do it the way it should be done, I just won't do it. And one thing that enables me to do that is that I can go on the road and do comedy. I can just go do standup. I don't need this shit. I really don't... This is the greatest thing that ever happened to me but I don't need it. And I'm eternally grateful to [FX] for letting me do it this way. I don't know why they gave me this much freedom. If I was running FX, I would have never given me what they've given me. It was irresponsible. I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling.

I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know? When you're getting ready for something, you feel pressure-when you're anticipating. But when you're constantly in activity, there's no time for pressure to just sit there and make you crack. [on the success of Louie (2010)] The show has been a precious thing to me, and it's been something I'm horribly grateful for. It's just such a big deal to me that I'm getting to do this. I'm aware of how fleeting it is. I'm aware that, at best, it'll go eight years, and that a year after those eight years are over, it'll feel like a distant memory. I'm aware of that. [on having complete control of Louie (2010)] To me, it's not that I control a bunch of people, it's just that nobody controls me. There's nothing above me except responsibility to the product. That's the ultimate responsibility, is if the show sucks, then what was the fucking point of being in charge?

I'm right about these things on the show, and when I'm not, it's interesting to watch me be wrong. I don't think you have to be perfect, you just have to be compelling in the work you do. I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible.... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know? [on his deal with FX for Louie (2010)] No one on the planet Earth has what I have right now. No one ever has. And I don't know that I ever will again. Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. You should expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.

Humans are always evolving. If you do one thing that if done by every human would destroy the world, that makes you Hitler... I don't live by any of those. But I believe them all very strongly. [on his jokes about his children] I definitely heighten everything for the material, you know? I don't act the way that I do onstage at home. I feel maybe 5% of what I say on stage and then I amplify it because it's fun. It's a release. But in real life I'm very patient with my kids. I don't have any animosity towards them and they're constantly fascinating. They don't bother me! And I love being with them and I'm very responsible with them. I take a lot of care with them. But that's not the way I am on the show. On the show I act the way I really feel, which is, fucking get me outta here! But that's only sometimes. And I think all parents feel that way. [on Pootie Tang (2001)] It comes from way back when I was a kid and I used to enjoy talking nonsense. But I used to try to talk nonsense believably, you know what I mean?

Like I'm really communicating, and not just talking a string of gibberish. It's something I used to do all the time: "Hey, it's a tippi tai a ma tammy fae." I just used to talk like that. Then I started trying to think of a sketch for Chris Rock , and I came up with the notion of a guy who's so cool, he doesn't even speak English, but he exudes this coolness and this ease, and Chris buys into it and doesn't question it, and just chats with him. The notion to me was that someone could just be flipping around and see this, and it would take them a few beats to see that these guys aren't saying anything. [on the failure of Pootie Tang (2001)] They wanted Austin Powers, plain and simple, for black people. They wanted a brightly lit, easy, punchy comedy, and that's not what I wrote and not what I directed. I directed something with a little more texture to it, I think, and a little more grit.

Another problem was that I thought we were making a low-budget movie that would go to Sundance, and everyone would say "How did you do this for $4 million? There's a car chase, there's all this stuff." But they didn't promote it that way. They just said, "Here's Paramount's next movie." So a lot of critics said, "This is the most irresponsible piece of..." They hated it. [on the cult status of Pootie Tang (2001)] There's a lot in that movie I love. It makes me happy that a world I created and wrote and shot made people happy and then lived on. After all, there aren't many other movies from that year that people still want to see now. But still, there's some regret as to how it came out, and things like that. It was worth it, though, because it was probably the most significant education of all the surviving-failure lessons I've gotten. Also, I think the success it's had proves that there's a little more to what I was saying than they thought. I think that if they had let me have even a little more freedom, it could have been more of a success.

[on his material about fatherhood] I started talking about it on stage a lot, just to blow off steam. I never thought I'd do material about kids, but I started getting really stressed out and not sleeping a lot. It's a very difficult thing, way harder than anything I've described to you so far. And the stakes are so much higher and more exhilarating and wonderful and all that. I started talking about it onstage and being very dark in the way I talk about my kid, saying things like, "I can understand these babies-in-the-garbage-can stories now. I wouldn't do it, but I understand it." I figured I'd just get booed, but that it'd be worth it, because I needed the release. I found that parents were coming up to me and saying, "Oh, we love this stuff." [on whether he considers himself a Latino] Latino is kind of... racial labels can be confusing. I am a Mexican American. My dad's Mexican. That was my first language and I lived there. I definitely identify more with being American because that's mostly how I grew up. And a lot of Latino comedians are from like Southern California, that kind of thing.

And I don't speak Spanish, at least not on stage. Although I have thought it would be fun if I could get my Spanish back to where it was, to do comedy in Spanish, it would be fun. [on Tig Notaro's onstage chronicling many recent tragic events in her life] I was crying and laughing and listening like never in my life. Here was this small woman standing alone against death and simply reporting where her mind had been and what had happened and employing her gorgeously acute stand-up. [on receiving applause at start of his HBO's special] I don't necessarily agree with you, but I appreciate it very much. I think that failing at Pootie Tang (2001) is why this show [ Louie (2010)] is good. It's one of the reasons. It's that and a huge - just an army of failures that have wrecked my life, made me good at this. I got to make a movie finally, which was my dream, and it was terrible, and then it got made even more terrible, and then it came out, and I was just hated. I mean, the first time I was known by a lot of people was because I made a bad movie.

And I remember watching Roger Ebert say -- I grew up watching Roger Ebert doing movie criticism, and he said, 'I can't even say this is a bad movie, because it's not even complete. It's incomplete. It's not even a movie.' It was the worst. I think it's probably the worst review he ever gave to a movie... But the great thing is that after maybe a week, it just goes away, and all you're left with is the forensic evidence of all the mistakes you made and all of the rocks that you've kind of crashed into, and you're left with this beautiful map of where all the dangers are, and you repair all the holes, and then you're so much better. Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee. [on Lucky Louie (2006)] I'm a vulgar, fucked-up degenerate comedian who did drugs. And I'm connecting with Christian mothers and fathers. I love that. That means so much to me. To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny.

To me Goodfellas (1990) and Raging Bull (1980) are two of the funniest movies I ever saw. The Jackass (2000) movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them. Coming here and observing America as an outsider made me an observing person. I grew up in Boston and didn't get the accent, and one of the reasons is that I started in Spanish. I was a little kid, so all I had to do was completely reject my Spanish and my Mexican past, which is a whole lot easier because I'm white with red hair. I had the help of a whole nation of people just accepting that I'm white. Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez . He's from California.

But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. My abuelita, my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience. You know what these parents say? "Damn right I hit my kids! I hit my kids... to teach 'em what life's really like... out in the World..." Well, I don't know, asshole, but have you tried maybe talking to them? You know what's funny? Kids are the only people you're allowed to hit. And they're so vulnerable! Large bobbly heads. "You're hitting me? Why are you hitting me, you're a giant! And you're hitting me? [Laughter] I'm dehydrated! Pepsi isn't water! I'm dying!" They say "All our kids ever do is play computer games" and I say "Maybe that's because you bought them a ******* computer game!" Saying a subject is too awful to joke about is like saying a disease is to awful to be treated. Mark Twain said "If you always tell the Truth, you don't have to remember what you said".

Which is great. But Mark Twain also said "There once was a big Black Guy called Nigger Jim"! You need to know you're boring once in a while. Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is important, too. You need to once in a while say "Oh, I'm an asshole", otherwise you're a psychopath. You know, when you go to someone "You're being an asshole" and they say "No, I'm not", well it's not up to you! And all that shouting at your kids? "What are you, an idiot?" No, you're the idiot. Rape is not in the ten commandments, but don't say the Guy's name with a shitty attitude... [on the 2016 presidential election]if you vote for Hilary you're a grown up, if vote for Trump, you're a sucker, if you don't vote for anybody you're an asshole See also Louis Szekely History - Louis Ck Net Worth Louis Szekely History Read more... Louis Ck Louis Ck Net Worth is $8.5 Million.

An American stand-up comedian, film writer, actor, producer and director, Louis Szekely, or Louis CK has a net worth of $8.5 million. Louis CK gained his net worth by starring in the comedy series Louie, which he a. Louis Szekely (born Septembe... Louis Ck Net Worth is $8.5 Million. Louis Ck Net Worth is $8.5 Million. An American stand-up comedian, film writer, actor, producer and director, Louis Szekely, or Louis CK has a net worth of $8.5 million. Louis CK gained his net worth by starring in the comedy series Louie, which he a Louis Szekely , known professionally as Louis C.K. , is an Emmy and Grammy award winning Mexican-American stand-up comedian, radio host, television and film writer, actor and director. He is the star of the FX comedy series Louie, which he also writes, directs, and edits, although starting with the third season he will no longer edit. C.K.'s stage name is derived from an approximate English pronunciation of his Hungarian surname, Szekely . C.K.

was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Mary Louise , a software engineer, and Luis Szekely, an economist. C.K.'s paternal grandfather, a Jewish Hungarian, emigrated to Mexico, where he met C.K.'s paternal grandmother, who was a Catholic Mexican of Spanish and Mexican Indian ancestry. C.K.'s father was born in Mexico and C.K.'s mother is an American of Irish Catholic ancestry. The two met at Harvard University while his father was trying to finish his... Louis Szekely | Dana Carvey Show | ZoomInfo.com Dana Carvey Show + Get 10 Free Contacts a Month Please agree to the terms and conditions I agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I understand that I will receive a subscription to ZoomInfo Grow at no charge in exchange for downloading and installing the ZoomInfo Contact Contributor utility which, among other features, involves sharing my business contacts as well as headers and signature blocks from emails that I receive. Web References (200 Total References) AKA: Louis C.K.: Word - Live at Carnegie Hall ... Louis C.K.: Oh My God ... Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater ...

First stand-up concert film ever presented at the Sundance Film Festival Buy Amazon | iTunes 2008 Louis C.K.: Chewed Up ... Included as a special feature on Louis C.K.: Shameless ... Louis C.K. - Live In Houston Stand-Up Comedy [HQ AUDIO] [2001] ... Louis was born in 1967. At six father's country of Mexico. As a result, he Then, in 1984, he went on a stage for the first time. It was open mike night at a comedy club in Boston Massachusettes. Louis found that he had only enough "material" to stay on the stage for two minutes. It was a terrible experience. Louis did not try comedy again until two years later. After much struggling and humiliating failure, Louis became a part of the burgeoning Boston Stand- Up comedy scene. In 1989, Louis moved to New york City. There were many, many (too many) comedy shows on television at the time and Louis appeared on all of them.

He did Evening at the Improv, MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour, Comic Strip Live, Comedy on the Road and he even went on Star Search and lost to a fellow named Steve Mc'grew. In 1990, Louis also made his first short film. It was called "Ceasar's Salad". It was pretty bad but it did Okay on the Festival circuit. The New Orleans Film and Video Festival gave it the "Best Comedy" award. The Chicago Film Festival gave it a Silver Plaque award. Over the next few years, Louis was living in New York City, doing stand up comedy all over the country. He made another short film called "Ice Cream". ... In 1993, The Conan O'brien Show hired Louis as a writer. He was a member of the original writing staff that launched the show, and worked there for about two years. He created many running bits on Conan's show that are still in use there today such as "Actual Items" and "The Staring Contest". Louis also made his network television debut as a stand up on Conan. He was the first stand up comedian to appear on Conan's show!

In 1995, Louis made six Short Films for Showtime scetch comedy show "Sunny Skies". The show was cancelled but the shorts live on. They play constantly on BRAVO and IFC. This was also the year that Louis appeared for the first time on Late Show with David Letterman, something that had been his life long dream. ... Louis worked on Late Show for 3 months until he became the Producer and Head Writer of the Dana Carvey Show on ABC. This show was a very irreverent scetch show on a family network and only lasted six weeks. Meanwhile, as far as Stand up, Louis appeared on Letterman and Conan several times over the next few years. ... did many TV appearances as a stand up in this year too. Louis C.K. [cached] Louis C.K. was born Louis Szekely on September 12th, 1967 in Washington, D.C to an economist of Mexican-Catholic/ Hungarian-Jewish descent and a Harvard-educated mother of Irish-Catholic descent. Today Louis is an Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, producer and director.

Louis lived in Mexico until the age of four when his family then moved to Massachusetts, in Framingham area around Newton. His surname has a Hungarian-origin. But as early as grade school, Louis resorted to C.K. to ensure it would be pronounced correctly. In 1984, Louis went on a stage for the first time at an open mic night at a comedy club in Boston. He only had enough material to perform two minutes. It was a terrible experience and Louis did not return to comedy again for another two years. When he did, he soon became a part of the burgeoning Boston comedy scene, which would give us many of today's greatest comedians including Steven Wright. In 1989, Louis moved to New York. There, he soon found himself on a variety of stand-up comedy TV programs including: An Evening at the Improv, MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour, the Comic Strip Live, Comedy on the Road and Star Search, where he lost to a fellow comedian Steve Mc'grew. In 1990, Louis also made his first short film, Caesar's Salad. The New Orleans Film and Video Festival gave Caesar Salad the Best Comedy Award and the Chicago Film Festival gave it a Silver Plaque Award.

In 1993, The Conan O'Brien Show hired Louis as a writer. He started writing for O'Brien as the talk show launched and worked there for the next two years In 1995, he appeared for the first time on Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman liked Louis so much that he also hired him as a writer. But Louis worked on Late Show for only three months until he became the Producer and Head Writer of the Dana Carvey Show on ABC. It was probably a bad trade-off. Carvey's sketch show only lasted for six weeks. That same year Louis made an appearance on HBO's 1995 Young Comedians Special. He would have his own half-hour special only a year later, also on HBO. Since then, Louis has appeared on the Tonight Show twice and The Late Show with David Letterman four more times. ... 1996 was a pivotal year for Louis. After taping returned to the Chris Rock Show earning three Emmy Nominations and winning one. During his 1997 departure, Louis made an independent Black and white film called Tomorrow Night. Louis wrote directed and produced the film with next to no money.

It was shown at the Sundance Film Festival where The New Times LA called it the best film of 2000. In 2000 Louis Directed and wrote his first studio movie, called Pootie Tang starring a character Louis created on the Chris Rock show. ... Then, in 2001, Louis released his first comedy CD, Louis C.K. Live in Houston. ... It earned Louis public condemnation from Catholic League president William A. Donohue and from Barbara Walters, who sparred with Louis, during an appearance on The View. ... As of August 2007, Louis has confirmed he's shopping around a collection of short stories entitled, Touching Turkeys Tastefully. In 2007, he own hour-long HBO special entitled Shameless. He is also a frequent guest on the Opie and Anthony radio show, which also stars his Lucky Louie co-star Jim Norton. He was also a part of Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour with numerous other comedians in 2007.

Louis was listed as one of the ten best comics to watch list in Variety in 2000 and then awarded the same honor by the Hollywood Reporter in 2002. He was ranked #98 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time. There was a small controversy about his placement. When prop comic Gallagher was ranked #100 on the list, Gallagher angrily remarked, "I don't even know who Louis C.K. is! Though it's interesting to note, when I allowed users to manipulate Comedy Central's original list, Gallagher was the first comic axed from the list. Louis C.K., on the other hand, climbed ten places to number 88. Very few have managed to move ten places in either direction. Louis recently started own YouTube channel, featuring skits and productions that were rejected by HBO. He is also set to appear in the upcoming films The Better Man and Diminished Capacity, and he second hour-long HBO special, Louis C.K.: Chewed Up in 2008. The Louis C.K. Biography @ Shayne-Michael.COMedy 1) Louis C.K.* | Biography ... Louis C.K.

was born Louis Szekely on September 12th, 1967 in Washington, D.C to an economist of Mexican-Catholic/ Hungarian-Jewish descent and a Harvard-educated mother of Irish-Catholic descent. Today Louis is an Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, producer and director. Louis lived in Mexico until the age of four when his family then moved to Massachusetts, in Framingham area around Newton. His surname has a Hungarian-origin. But as early as grade school, Louis resorted to C.K. to ensure it would be pronounced correctly. In 1984, Louis went on a stage for the first time at an open mic night at a comedy club in Boston. He only had enough material to perform two minutes. It was a terrible experience and Louis did not return to comedy again for another two years. When he did, he soon became a part of the burgeoning Boston comedy scene, which would give us many of today's greatest comedians including Steven Wright. In 1989, Louis moved to New York.

There, he soon found himself on a variety of stand-up comedy TV programs including: An Evening at the Improv, MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour, the Comic Strip Live, Comedy on the Road and Star Search, where he lost to a fellow comedian Steve Mc'grew. In 1990, Louis also made his first short film, Caesar's Salad. The New Orleans Film and Video Festival gave Caesar Salad the Best Comedy Award and the Chicago Film Festival gave it a Silver Plaque Award. In 1993, The Conan O'Brien Show hired Louis as a writer. He started writing for O'Brien as the talk show launched and worked there for the next two years In 1995, he appeared for the first time on Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman liked Louis so much that he also hired him as a writer. But Louis worked on Late Show for only three months until he became the Producer and Head Writer of the Dana Carvey Show on ABC. It was probably a bad trade-off. Carvey's sketch show only lasted for six weeks. That same year Louis made an appearance on HBO's 1995 Young Comedians Special.

He would have his own half-hour special only a year later, also on HBO. Since then, Louis has appeared on the Tonight Show twice and The Late Show with David Letterman four more times. ... 1996 was a pivotal year for Louis. After taping returned to the Chris Rock Show earning three Emmy Nominations and winning one. During his 1997 departure, Louis made an independent Black and white film called Tomorrow Night. Louis wrote directed and produced the film with next to no money. It was shown at the Sundance Film Festival where The New Times LA called it the best film of 2000. In 2000 Louis Directed and wrote his first studio movie, called Pootie Tang starring a character Louis created on the Chris Rock show. ... Then, in 2001, Louis released his first comedy CD, Louis C.K. Live in Houston. ... It earned Louis public condemnation from Catholic League president William A. Donohue and from Barbara Walters, who sparred with Louis, during an appearance on The View. ... As of August 2007, Louis has confirmed he's shopping around a collection of short stories entitled, Touching Turkeys Tastefully.

In 2007, he own hour-long HBO special entitled Shameless. He is also a frequent guest on the Opie and Anthony radio show, which also stars his Lucky Louie co-star Jim Norton. He was also a part of Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour with numerous other comedians in 2007. Louis was listed as one of the ten best comics to watch list in Variety in 2000 and then awarded the same honor by the Hollywood Reporter in 2002. He was ranked #98 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time. There was a small controversy about his placement. When prop comic Gallagher was ranked #100 on the list, Gallagher angrily remarked, "I don't even know who Louis C.K. is! Though it's interesting to note, when I allowed users to manipulate Comedy Central's original list, Gallagher was the first comic axed from the list. Louis C.K., on the other hand, climbed ten places to number 88. Very few have managed to move ten places in either direction. Louis recently started own YouTube channel, featuring skits and productions that were rejected by HBO.

He is also set to appear in the upcoming films The Better Man and Diminished Capacity, and he Similar artists to Kevin Hart — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm Louis C.K. is the stage name of Louis Szekely (born September 12, 1967), an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, producer and director. C.K.… Nicholas Roger Swardson (born October 9, 1976) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Swardson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Pamela and…

Question: What is the stage name of US comedian Louis Szekely?
Answer: Louis CK